Effective 12:00 p.m. EST January 5, 2001 the IP address of KDE Dot News is scheduled to change from 216.186.210.168 to 64.22.20.150. Although we expect the transition to be a smooth one, you may experience difficulties accessing the site by the regular hostnames (dot.kde.org, news.kde.org, www.kdenews.org, etc...) around that time; using the new IP address in lieu of the domain name may help. Update: 01/05 7:31 PM by D: The ISP experienced technical difficulties in making the change and hence the transfer has been postponed until mid next week. We'll keep you posted.

This is semi off topic, but I'd like to see less of the "discussion" news that has been on kde news lately. For instance, "Do interoperability technologies help or hurt kde development". This isn't news, it's a flame war magnet. KDE developers are already aware of topics such as these, and they dont need things like this to encourage discussion. Thats what the mailing lists are for. Instead, kde news should focus on just that : news. BTW, this isn't meant as a flame toward kde news. This should be interpreted as a suggestion.

To stay offtopic, I would like to post a "search request".
I'm searching experienced or wannabe qt/kde or just Unix developers, to share thoughts and wisdom.
Maybe some of them are lurking around here?
I would really like to have some of them in my ICQ contactlist, for asking and answering questions.
My ICQ number is 51165217, feel free to contact me.
I would be also glad if someone could point me to well known developers forums, mailinglists, newsgroups. I mean this kind of places, where beginners can ask questions and even have to chance to get them answered.
I'm currently working on the NetRaider browser and some other projects and I have a lot of questions concerning Qt, KDE, autoconf, CVS... but I have no real contacts which I could ask or just talk about some problems. Any ideas, how I could change that?